Is this meant to be a reference to the campfire scene in Easy Rider where Jack Nicholson's character starts babbling about the stars being 'little campfires in the sky' with people looking back at her?

I'm also wondering if this arc ends with Tai realising just how silly her recreational choices seem, even to her. I mean, people are calling her a stereotype and I can't see Tai being comfortable with being that in any way! A Tai 'I want to be different' arc where she drags poor Dora into her lifestyle crisis by insisting she help her 'try new stuff' could be funny!

Yeah, Jeph is definitely aiming for a few strips of 'Tai and Claire being stoned and random' here. That said, I'm not entirely sure how much of this is due to the drug. Claire has the habit of being random anyway and Tai likes interacting with people so much that you can be sure that she'll reciprocate!

Oddly enough, it's panel 4 that gets my attention. Is Tai's hand just coincidentally behind Claire's head or is she trying to stop her from sliding off onto the floor by grabbing the back of her vest?

Yeah, drug testing is a feature of many professions. I got regularly tested as a software developer working for a major corporation.

Off-topic - this is either a Tapatalk bug or some weird interaction between the forum and Tapatalk, but Tapatalk is informing me that I am banned from the forum. Obviously this is incorrect since I can still post through a browser. But somebody with access to the back end may want to take a look.

Seems pretty Orwellian. I can understand it for jobs with some kind of privilege or precision involved - like a lab for example.

But why the hell should I get drug tested to stack shelves at Walmart??

Didn't Walmart used to stock firearms?

But yeah, I've never been drug tested, but I have been breathalysed at work. I was working at a distillery at the time and I was assigned to the warehouses, which meant we were checking on several hundred thousand litres of highly flammable alcohol, so it was to make sure that (i) no one was sampling the stock but more importantly (ii) you had competent and sober people in case there was an incident.

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Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart but I am street smart.", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I am imaginary smart."

Off-topic - this is either a Tapatalk bug or some weird interaction between the forum and Tapatalk, but Tapatalk is informing me that I am banned from the forum. Obviously this is incorrect since I can still post through a browser. But somebody with access to the back end may want to take a look.

Most likely Tapatalk has an IP address range which has a conflict with an old ban. I'll try to find it in the logs. Thanks for the report.

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"Being human, having your health; that's what's important."(from: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi )"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?"(from: The Eccentric Family )

Seems pretty Orwellian. I can understand it for jobs with some kind of privilege or precision involved - like a lab for example.

But why the hell should I get drug tested to stack shelves at Walmart??

Didn't Walmart used to stock firearms?

But yeah, I've never been drug tested, but I have been breathalysed at work. I was working at a distillery at the time and I was assigned to the warehouses, which meant we were checking on several hundred thousand litres of highly flammable alcohol, so it was to make sure that (i) no one was sampling the stock but more importantly (ii) you had competent and sober people in case there was an incident.

Walmart is a bad example then. But also, Jesus Christ guns in supermarkets.

Most likely Tapatalk has an IP address range which has a conflict with an old ban. I'll try to find it in the logs. Thanks for the report.

The latest ban included a Tapatalk address, because the person concerned had been using Tapatalk :~)Now sorted.

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"Being human, having your health; that's what's important."(from: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi )"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?"(from: The Eccentric Family )

One of these days I wanna try pot brownies. Just to see what the whole deal is.

If you have a good response to smoking pot, you'll probably like it, unless you dislike the delayed response.

Personally, just like smoking pot, it isn't for me. Apparently my physiology is such that I either don't feel anything interesting or, when upping the dose, simply feeling like extraordinary crap. Nothing in between so never a nice feeling. Ergo, marijuana is not for me nor do I really understand the appeal of it.

A strait-laced friend of mine sampled brownies neither of us knew know were hashed, at a college party long ago.She ate one brownie as we talked, then another, and presently there were no more brownies.We talked for two hours.Several years later, she brought that up in conversation.She did not remember talking to me.

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I know what the first response will be, and have one or two ideas as to which one of you will make it.

Also, "Moggy" is the best word in the English language. Americans should steal it from the British. And give back "spot on" in return.

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"We are who we pretend to be. So we had better be careful who we pretend to be." -- Kurt Vonnegut.

Yeah, drug testing is a feature of many professions. I got regularly tested as a software developer working for a major corporation.

Off-topic - this is either a Tapatalk bug or some weird interaction between the forum and Tapatalk, but Tapatalk is informing me that I am banned from the forum. Obviously this is incorrect since I can still post through a browser. But somebody with access to the back end may want to take a look.

I can see random drug testing for occupations that have a strong safety aspect, but a software developer? Really? What are you going to do, program some really laid back code?

Excuse me for interrupting this conversation, but why in seven hells are a bunch of forumites, including a moderator, giving a poster a hard time for not being willing to break the law? I mean, I agree with you that it shouldn't be against the law, but really? They've said they're not willing to. This is flirting with online bullying.

Whatever you think of random drug tests at work, how about taking this conversation somewhere it isn't off-topic? Better yet, dropping it. It's their choice, not yours.

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"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking." - Sir Joshua Reynolds (paraphrased)